Highlighting Service for Search Result Context Preservation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current bookmarking mechanisms lack context, are prone to staleness, and are inefficient for sharing information, as they require additional steps for users to access and understand the significance of saved web content, and often result in lost context and credibility when shared.
Innovation Solution
A highlighting service that allows users to automatically highlight and annotate internet content without additional software, enabling easy retrieval and sharing by storing highlighted text and images on a server, which can be viewed later and shared with others, with options for filtering and configuring display settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If users save web pages as bookmarks, then they can retrieve the URL later, but they lose the context and significance of why the page was saved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the web page content by extracting and highlighting specific passages that contain the significant information. Instead of saving the entire page, the system identifies and isolates relevant text segments, allowing users to quickly grasp the essence without reading the full document.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a copy of the significant passages from the original web page and stores them alongside the bookmark. This copied content preserves the context and meaning, enabling users to review the highlighted text later without needing to understand the entire original page.
2Ease of operation
If users share bookmarks with others, then they can share the URL, but they lose credibility and context in the process
Solution Approach 1:
When sharing bookmarks, the system automatically includes a copy of the highlighted significant passages along with the URL. This ensures that the recipient receives both the link and the contextual information, maintaining credibility without requiring additional manual copying by the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the bookmark URL with the highlighted passage content into a single shared entity. Instead of separately sharing a link and then explaining its significance, the system combines both elements, so the shared bookmark inherently contains both the destination and the reason for visiting it.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If web pages are saved as bookmarks, then they can be retrieved later, but the pages may become stale or expire
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a static copy of the significant passages at the time of bookmarking. This captured content remains preserved and unchanged over time, ensuring that even if the original web page becomes stale or expires, the highlighted information remains accurate and reliable for future reference.
Data Source
AI summary
This invention discloses the ability to automatically have portions of content that match the results for a search term(s): be highlighted. This saves users a lot of time when trying to find information of interest to them. It is especially delightful for users to automagically have this ability available without having to install any additional software components to their computing devices.